Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 261 p.The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and
hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011.Corpus linguistics
Tao Ming and Liang Chen. The ordering of multiple relative clauses modifying the same head NP in Chinese follows information-flow principles
Shan Wang, Sophia Lee and Chu-ren Huang. A corpus-based analysis of semantic type system of event nouns: a case study on huìyì
Wen Jin. A statistical argument for the homophone avoidance approach to the disyllabification of Chinese
Historical linguistics
Scott DeLancey. The origins of Sinitic
Jeeyoung Peck. Analogy and reanalysis in the postposing of durative and iterative adverbials in the history of Chinese
Phonetics and phonology
Shawn Yung-hsiang Chang. Distinction between Mandarin tones 2 and 3 for L1 and L2 listeners
Ping Jiang and Aishu Chen. Representation of Mandarin intonations: boundary tone revisited
Yah-ting Shih and Eunjong Kong. Perception of Mandarin fricatives by native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin and Taiwane
Ying-Shing Li. Investigating Taiwan Southern Min sub-syllabic structure using maximum entropy models and wordlikeness judgments
Chiung-Yao Wang and Yen-Hwei Lin. Variation in tone 3 sandhi in Mandarin: the case of prepositions and pronouns
Seth Wiener. Grass-mud horse to victory: the phonological constraints of subversive puns
Seth Wiener and Ya-ting Shih. Divergent places of articulation: [ω] and [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin.
Psycholinguistics
Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Chinese and English relative clauses: processing constraints and typological consequences
Yowyu Lin. Locality versus anti-locality effects in Mandarin sentence comprehension
Yu-an Lu. The psychological reality of phonological representations: the case of Mandarin fricatives
Second language acquisition
Ying Liu and Qian Du. Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners’ linguistic representation of voice in argumentative writing
Hongying Xu. The acquisition of some properties of the BA construction by English-speaking learners of Chinese
Jin Zhang. L2 acquisition of Chinese locative inversion
